Monday Give Away: THE WITCH ELM
Full disclosure: there’s no witchcraft involved in Tana French’s new stand alone, The Witch Elm, but there is the usual magic of her writing: beautifully drawn characters, a setting so vivid you’re sure you’re there, and a wonderfully twisty plot. Here’s the official description: From the writer who “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New…
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After finishing Tana French’s The Witch Elm, I’ve been in a bit of a book slump. Thinking a bit of Golden Age crime might be the answer, I tried Georgette Heyer’s early mystery novel, A Blunt Instrument— but it only reminded me how little I like Heyer’s mysteries. Which always baffles me, because her Regencies…
Read MoreMonday Give Away Winner
The winner of my ARC of M.J. Rose’s Tiffany Blues is… Eve! Congrats, Eve! If you let me know where to send it, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. Stay tuned for another give away coming up next Monday….
Read MoreTHE SUMMER COUNTRY
Years and years ago (and by years and years ago, I mean back when the Pink Carnation series was in single digits, back before I wrote stand alone novels, back before I had children– actually, so far back, I wasn’t even married yet), I went on a plantation tour in the Caribbean and heard a…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: TIFFANY BLUES
Happy Columbus Day! For today’s Monday Give Away, we have… M.J. Rose’s darkly atmospheric novel of art, love, and secrets, Tiffany Blues. Here’s the official blurb: The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts a dazzling Jazz Age jewel–a novel of ambition, betrayal, and passion about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens…
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Happy Friday! I started off the new month with some non-fiction: Nadine Akkerman’s Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain— and if you think that has something to do with what I’m working on next, you might be right. Right now, I’m stealing every spare moment I can with Tana French’s new stand alone…
Read MoreTHE OTHER DAUGHTER– on sale for $2.99!
Four years ago, I went back to 1920s London and set a book in the hectic milieu of the Bright Young People, the world of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, of absurd costume parties and deliberately crazy slang and drinking too much because there was a war to end all wars not a decade ago,…
Read MoreLast Chance to join Book Club Night Out! (10/17, NYC)
We’re down to the last few open spaces for Book Club Girl’s Book Club Night Out, a night of books, drinks, and fun with Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and me! The evening includes a Q&A, food and booze, and goody bags with advance copies of both Beatriz’s and my summer 2019 books, The Golden Hour…
Read MoreMonday Give Away Winner
The winner of this week’s Monday Give Away, an ARC of Susan Elia MacNeal’s The Prisoner in the Castle, is… Susan Collins! Congrats, Susan! If you let me know where to send it, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. Stay tuned for another give away coming up next Monday– and Tuesday If…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: THE PRISONER IN THE CASTLE
Happy October! Who wants to go to a secluded Scottish castle– in which someone may be a murderer? For today’s Monday Give Away, I have… an ARC of Susan Elia MacNeal’s latest in her acclaimed Maggie Hope series, The Prisoner in the Castle. Here’s the official blurb: A series of baffling murders among a group…
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